Word: calmed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nerves and a search for small advantages that are not always on the chessboard. Spain's Bishop Ruy Lopez recognized this as early as the 16th century when he recommended that an opponent always be seated so that the light shone in his eyes. Reshevsky's icy calm has a similar unsettling effect on his opponents. But the calm is only skin-deep. After match play, Samuel often breaks into a heavy sweat. When he has lost a game, or drawn one he should have won, sleep escapes him: "I go over and over it in my mind...
...pictures as gentle and untroubled as garden roses: pink-cheeked girls doing their hair, Sunday picnics in the park, swans, haystacks, cherry pickers, and happy children with dolls. Berthe Morisot's colors were bright and sunny, her figures nicely drawn and set in an atmosphere of misty calm. Next to her works were ten other paintings from her collection, by such greats as Degas, Renoir, Manet, Monet; these showed where Berthe had learned her style...
Single Standard. It was a unique moment in U.S. political history when the G.O.P. presidential candidate came to the microphones in Kansas City's Municipal Auditorium and, in a clear, calm voice, read off the vice presidential candidate's explanation of his conduct. Said Nixon, through Ike: "Because of continued misrepresentation concerning disbursement of a fund which was collected and expended for legitimate political purposes. I have asked the trustee of this fund, Dana Smith of Pasadena, to make a full report to the public of this matter ..." When Ike finished reading, he added: "Knowing Dick Nixon...
...teach him slow," Goldman says, "because I want him to feel natural." The fidgetless calm of Rocky's conversation, the buoyancy of his step and the rippling muscularity of his workouts bespeak an unclouded mind in a body sound as brick...
...lines up with the Democrats. When it seemed clear that Cashmore would be nominated, the Liberals balked. They nominated a stopgap candidate, Columbia University's Dr. George S. Counts. Party leaders admitted that they might shift to another candidate before election. What made the Liberals maddest was the calm Democratic prediction that the Liberals would come around to Cashmore-as well they might...